Source photo is added to the pier photo which will become the background. The dock with the tires has been cloned away with patterns of the rocks already there.
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Girl with guitar is added to end of pier and has to be chopped and scaled down to proper size.
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Trees have been extended using smudge and brush tools, then tops are cloned in.
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Cabin source photo is moved in to be chopped then sized to fit location along shoreline.
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Here cabin has been chopped and sized, then duplicated, flipped vertically to use reflection of boats. Other reflections are cloned from bushes and rocks.
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Gulls are added now, chopped, then duplicated and rotated. They are all sized at different sizes according to their placement to help give more perspective to the design.
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Finally, some light and shadow changes are made to the girl and the guitar, then very low opacity filters in brown, blue and gold are placed over the entire merged piece.